WordPress from A to W
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An exciting journey that will allow you to know everything about WordPress and the wonderful world of blogging.
15 chapters (over 200 pages) containing detailed information to fully enter into the world of blogs!
With WordPress from "A" to "W", you will be able to:
- create your blog now, using a solid CMS like WordPress
- discover the strengths of WordPress and configure it to get your successful blog
- gain appreciation of users and improve your online presence
- make money with your blog
Clearly written and well organized, this edition is designed to meet the needs of everyone, from novice bloggers to most experienced webmasters!
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WordPress from A to W - Roberto Travagliante
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
Blog: who is this?
Before getting to the heart of topic, we start to answer the initial question specified in the preamble: what is a blog?
Usually a blog is defined as a web service by which you can share with others your own thoughts and your opinions in a sort of "virtual diary".
If we read the meaning of the word "blog on the Wikipedia free encyclopedia, we find:
... a blog is a website, usually maintained by an individual or an entity where the author (blogger) publishes periodically, as in a sort of online diary, thoughts, opinions, and other considerations, along with other types of electronic equipment such as images or video".
In fact, usually a blog is considered as a diary. Not surprisingly, the word "blog comes from a contraction of the words
web and
log to
weblog (
diary on the web").
The term "weblog dates from 1997, while its truncated version,
blog was introduced for the first time by Peter Merholz, who in 1999 used the phrase
we blog, thus coining a new verb
to blog".
So, the main feature of a blog is to allow the sharing of information of various kinds and format, providing an important tool to show the right to freedom of thought, also over the Internet.
But a blog is not just this thing. A blog is also a medium that allows bloggers to get in touch with their readers, giving them the opportunity to express their ideas on the topics covered and, more generally, about the contents.
I think this is the aspect that makes the blog a much more exciting than any other type of service on the web. In fact, using a blog, readers have the opportunity to deal with blogger and back, through the system of comments
, which we will see in more detail in Chapter 7.
Traditional Websites, Forums and Blogs
So, a blog is nothing more than a website. Then, why can not we just call it "Website"? What makes it different than a traditional website? O compared to a forum, for example?
I am convinced that the main difference lies in the mode of interaction between the webmaster and / or the blogger and its users / readers.
To better understand this, we start by analyzing a traditional site. In a traditional website, the webmaster prepares a structure (for example, he develops the HTML pages) and uploads the contents (texts, images and other multimedia content, and so on...).
Once that is done, he has no means of interaction with its readers, through the website unless it draws up a special mask for contacts to be used to receive messages that actually get delivered by an e-mail address.
Obviously, this system moves a possible dialogue between the webmaster and its users on another channel, for example the e-mail.
In the past, because of the need to have a closer and immediate dialogue, many webmasters have shifted their focus on forums.
In fact, forums allowed a very direct relationship between the various users who attended them and, therefore, they allow the webmasters that, for example, developed company websites, to communicate with their customers, to better understand their needs, to offer them post-sales support, and so on...
However, the solution offered by the forum, although the one hand allows users to communicate, interact and collaborate with the webmaster and, more generally, with the managers and / or moderators, it has some other critical elements which, in my opinion, should not be ignored:
Usually, to launch a forum, you need to have registered users that become members and that access through a username and password;
It is extremely difficult to start a forum, without having a good number of active users.
Regarding the first point, imagine you landing for the first time on a forum, thanks to research done by the search engine for excellence: Google.
How much are you prepared to make a registration process and to complete access to a forum that you are visiting for the first time?
My own experience has shown me that very few people agree to join a forum, the first time they visit it. Most users choose to register on a forum only if the content is extremely interesting, and then if it is useful to intervene in different discussions or, alternatively, if they need help and / or assistance regarding a particular topic.
This, because most users generally use the Internet as a reference tool, with the purpose of obtaining information, rather than a willingness to actively participate in the formation of the information.
Instead, about the second aspect, it should be emphasized that the ability of a forum to attract new members and grow, paradoxically depends also on the number of active users, the same who already participate in it.
In fact, a new visitor, who is a potential user but not yet a member, will be more inclined to intervene in a discussion forum where he immediately feels a great participation of other members.
To better understand this aspect, let's imagine again to take a drink with a friend and to be able to choose between two pubs located on the same street or in the same square. Where we will go, more likely? I believe in the most crowded.
It may seem less obvious choice, because maybe we have to queue and wait a few more minutes to be served. But the motivation that drives us to make our choice is the fact that if there are more people, coffee is probably most delicious, or service is better, or manager is more friendly, and so on...
Well, in a forum, the situation is identical. A forum where there are active users on most topics and where there are well developed discussions by several members (very large threads), definitely becomes much more appealing than a forum in which participation is lower, both in terms of quantity and quality.
That's why it is very difficult to start up a forum, without good basis in terms of potential members. To overcome this difficulty, when someone asks me a tip on this, I suggest starting first with the creation of a website and / or blog to attract visitors and get to know their tastes and motivations that drive them to consult the site. And I recommend to open the forum only when he can count on a good number of potential members.
Maybe right now you are asking yourself: "Yes, but I wanted to read a book about blogs. Why we are talking about forum?". Because from analysis of these issues arises the need to create a blog!
In fact, as we said, traditional websites do not allow a good interaction with users, while the forum, since they are based entirely on this interaction, are not easy to start and maintain, and often do not lead to desired results.
So, here is the usefulness of the blog, which solves our problems!
A blog has the normal appearance of a traditional site, with the potential of interaction similar to those of a forum. However, it does not have the defects already mentioned, regarding the forum.
In fact, the blog allows you to provide information (the same content that would be present on a traditional site) and to open a discussion about such content, using an important comment system, allowing all users to intervene, expressing their own opinions, thoughts, etc.
This can happen more or less freely, according to the rules established by the bloggers, who can choose to moderate comments or not, as well as to force users to register or not. But these issues are best analyzed in Chapter 7, dedicated to the comment system.
At the time, you need to know that the participation of users, is important but not essential to the success of a blog.
In fact, on the Internet there are blogs where comments are open to everyone, in the best spirit of sharing and greater freedom of expression and thought.
But there are also blogs that do not give users any opportunity to comment on the articles contained therein, except upon subscription and authentication. In the latter case, blogs assume a function of pure consultation of contents, by visitors.
However, participation is certainly one of the main reasons why blogs had a major impact on the area of information, becoming, to date, one of the most important tools about online communication.
Why decide to create a blog?
What pushes a person, an institution and / or a company to create a blog?
The reasons are many and very different from each other. You can start a blog just to share your thoughts, your moods, your point of view about most different topics . In this case, the blog assumes a very personal character and it very often becomes a "safety valve" for blogger, who uses it as a real diary.
The category of personal blogs is very common. In a blog of this kind, usually you can find comments left by friends and / or occasional visitors.
But this is not the only type of blog. In fact, next to personal blogs, we find, for example, corporate blogs, created for sponsorship and / or promotion of products and services, or for customer support.
This kind of blog is often used to provide the company a direct connection to its customers. Indeed, through a corporate blog, it is possible to know the tastes of customers, the problems encountered during the use of certain products, the opinions, and so on.
At other times, blogs are created with the intention of creating centers for aggregation for people who share opinions, hobbies, and so on...
The "collective blogs and the
social blogs" are very common categories of blog. The first type is characterized by the blogs in which web content is created and uploaded by a more or less limited group of authors, usually with specific interests. The social blogs, instead, are characterized by the fact of being open and accessible to everyone. In these blogs, all users who are registered can publish articles.
However, regardless of the type of blog you want to achieve, the goal of this book is to guide you in detail the various phases that regard its creation and its development, and to provide you with any useful suggestions for its growth and full achievement of your goals.
Essential Concepts and Definitions
Before delving into various aspects relating to the creation of a blog, we see some brief definition that can be useful in the hereafter, and that, eventually, we will review in more detail in next chapters.
Advertiser - in an advertising system, who promotes its products or services through online advertising, in the spaces provided on websites, by the Publisher.
Blog - contraction of "weblog" - website, usually maintained by one person or a group of persons (possibly by a company or institution), where the author (blogger) publishes periodically its thoughts, opinions, and other considerations, by using, where appropriate, other types of electronic material, such as pictures or videos.
Browser - software by which you can access several websites on the Internet and browse the relevant pages and their contents. Examples of browsers are "Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox,
Apple Safari,
Google Chrome, or
Opera Browser".
CMS - (Content Management System) - software system, installed on a web server and designed to easily provide management for website contents, freeing the webmaster by the need to know the languages and web programming techniques.
Database - the set of files and archives organized in a particular logical structure, for the management of data on which you can perform different actions (insert, search, edit and delete).
DBMS - (DataBase Management System) - software system for creating and managing databases, usually intended for use by multiple users.
DNS - (Domain Name System) - system for resolving domain names. Specifically, the DNS is the service that takes care of converting domain names (such as www.blogname.com) to their IP addresses, codes consisting of 4 numbers (octets) that uniquely identify each host on Internet network (TCP / IP).
FTP - (File Transfer Protocol) - protocol used for the transfer of files from one host to another, in a TCP / IP network such as Internet.
Hosting - service that allows an operator (Internet Service Provider), to provide a user (in our case, the blogger) a web server to host pages of a web site (or, more specifically, a blog).
HTML - (HyperText Markup Language) tag-based language for text formatting, used for the representation of hypertext contents which must be inserted in the pages of a web site.
HTTP - (HyperText Transfer Protocol) - protocol used for transferring hypertext documents from one host to another (such as web pages). Today is the most common protocol used on the Internet and allows the normal navigation between different web sites present in the world.
ISP - (Internet Service Provider) - A company that provides Internet services, such as email, web space, etc.
ICT - (Information and Communication Technology) - the set of methods and technologies for the realization of systems of transmission, reception and processing of information (including digital technologies).
Layout - layout and graphic structure of a web site or document, with particular reference to the provision of text,